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Title
Construction workers and cook, posing outside the Monastery at Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Group photograph of construction workers and one cook, outside the 'Monastery' at Mount Wilson Observatory. Twenty-four (24) people are in the photograph; one is a woman. The Monastery at Mount Wilson Observatory was a dormitory for visiting researchers and scientists. One of the exterior walls, with windows, of the Monastery building is visible behind the group.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Extent
1 8X10 print
Identifier
COPC 3190
31187
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/585
Subject
Construction workers--United States
Women cooks--United States
Aprons
Hats
Dormitories--California
Windows
Mount Wilson Observatory
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Group portraits. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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